Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia, while suspicious of Germany, was suspicious of the democracies. Joseph Stalin having served notice in March that he did not propose to be pitted against Germany by the Allies, only so that both countries might be knocked out after each had knocked the other groggy...
...rate, if either Joseph Stalin or Adolf Hitler-who have led their countrymen to believe that the other is the devil unchained (but not so deliberately recently)-needed any sales points to make the deal palatable at home, they were available. General belief was that they would scarcely take the trouble. They did not even bother to reveal who had undertaken the preliminaries to the greatest and quietest diplomatic about-face in modern European history...
...been established. Six months ago excited Mongols raced their tough little ponies against the first railroad train they had ever seen when service was started on a 25-mile narrow-gauge line connecting Ulan Bator Khoto with the country's only coal mine. Three years ago Dictator Joseph Stalin informed the world that the U. S. S. R. would tolerate no outside interference there, and Foreign Commissar Molotov dittoed these sentiments last...
...that the Anglo-Soviet pact negotiations are deadlocked, that France and Britain are deliberately dragging them out in order to have an excuse for making a pact with Germany. Wrote Tovarich Zhdanov archly: Some friends disagree. One friend who obviously did not disagree was "Dear Friend" Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili Stalin, who took this typical way of prodding on the plodding powwows...
Main stumbling-block in the Anglo-Soviet talks from the start has been Russia's insistence that Britain specifically guarantee Estonia, Latvia and Finland against German aggression. Last week Führer Hitler appeared in the singular role of playing Stalin's game for him as the British Government, alarmed over the Danzig situation, was reported virtually to have conceded every Russian demand. Concessions were: 1) Specific military guarantees to the Baltic States; 2) Anglo-French-Russian staff consultations before the alliance becomes effective; 3) specific pledges by Britain and France not to make a separate peace during...